Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-22
THE MURDER TRIAL.
[coatiaaed from First Puge ]
MRS. STURGEON

reside about % miles from the McWna
property; know the prisoner; met him nj
then house; when ] left he went with me
to the station; knew his wife had made .
will: he said she had left $500 to the
church. AM, he had told her if she wanted
to buy the Lord she had better educate n
Young man for the ministry. He first told
me that Mrs. McWha had made will.
Q.-State, if you know, the feeling be
tween Baker and Mrs. McWha. Objected
to and the objection sustained.
Mrs. McWha never spoke TO Baker while
was at their house; she would not eat
with the rest.
| Cross-examination-I was on very good
terms with Mrs. McWha; she was never
angry with me that know OF.
| A. G. LEE.
reside at Burgettstown; / married Mrs.
Mcwha's second daughter; was at their
house a week or ten days after the MUIR
der, examined the premises, Mr.. Patterson
and myself made search Of the entire
house; in the back room in box We found
the will of Robert McWha, the will OF
Mrs. McWha, and note for $500; in MIS-.
McWha's room We found n wooden box
containing silverware; the box was open,
sitting upon 4 shelf in the cupboard; we
found few other things on the shelf; a
watch and other jewelry were found IN
| the drawers of the bureau, was by at the
time: | found the bonds in the sittiDgroom;
they were concealed under the marble slab
of the bureau; in trying to remove the slab
We run across them; We could not find the
will of Mrs. Baker; searched the stove anu
found bundle OF charred paper, upon
which could make out the words ito,
and 1.-THE" and capital "W." We found
a number of spots on the window and
| in the corner; saw blood marks in the
kitchen, n stain from the door 10 the stove
and two pools; one was about six inches
in diameter, it was irregular in shape; the
leaf of the table had all appearance ~ II
water had been used, and finger mark
was on il; the sitting room was five inches
higher than the kitchen; in the door from
the kitchen to the sitting room was spot
Of blood, on the sill, and the jambs were
bespattereI for height of two feet; the
windows of the kitchen were entirely COW
cred up; the lower half OF one was covered
up with green oil cloth; of the other win
dow the lambrequin had been torn off and
shawl forced over the nails, the lower
part was pieced out with piece OF paper,
and chair put up against it; | examined
the shutters to the parlor window, three
pieces were out: one had been broken ont,
the splinters fell down on the floor; saw
no marks upon the Stats, there was small
scratch upon the shutters, as if made by
the point of a nail.
Mrs. McWha and Mrs Baker were very
particular housekeepers; | don't know
about the kindling, they always provided
coal the evening before; the cupboards of
the parlor had been disturbed; the cloth
ing had been tossed about aud dropped on
the floor; | do not know of any key 10 the
front door
Contamination piece off the
frame of the window shutter was on the
floor of the parlor. The split slat was out
side; the otter two were hanging loose in
the shutter. When they left the house
they bolted the front door and went out
and locked the kitchen door.
MISS ELLA wISNER
called and sworn: l reside at Holidays
Cove. | saw the prisoner on Saturday he
for the murder; made arrangements on
Saturday for him to get my mail from the
postotlice and take it to Mrs. McWha's;
went up Saturday and Mrs Baker told me
to come up Monday evening; about ~
O'Clock on Monday morning Baker came
down and told ME there was no mail and |
need not 20 after it; | was ut Mr.. Den
nings when he came; ] got the mail after
wards on that day; had made al arrange
ment by which one got the mail one day
and the other the next; when Mr.. Baker
returned he kept up the arrangement and
carried the mail all the time; two boys
brought the mail afterwards 10 me; the
mail came in about nine o'clock in the
morning.
Cross-eNaminatiOn- rot the mail about
an hour and hall after Baker had been
there; got paper that day and no letter.
MIR. FARREI..
! am conductor on an accommodation
train going east; passes Holidays Cove q.
s06; my train bears mail for Holidays |
Cove; distribute all along the route
JAMES WRIGHT, JR.
live ut Holidays Cove; saw Baker on
Monday morning between IL 30 and IL
O'Clock; heard conversation between the |
prisoner and Miss Wisner; he said, ELLA,
there is no mail there for you, We will
have to get n new postmaster" he further
said to me: you fellows are not doing any
good, aud using an oath, said he was going
10 town,
WIN. DAVIDSON.
live at Steubenvile; remember the day
the women were killed; saw Baker al
Mrs. McWha's that day; was renting
stable Of Mrs. McWba; we were there
about a quaIter Of an hour; Billy Nelson
and Morg White were with me; did not
notice the windows; left between twelve
and one o'clock; do not know whether
they had bad their dinner or not; could smell
meat frying after We rented the stable
had q talk with Baker; he came
Out and told us that when we came back
there that night, VT must 90 about our
business, and not 90 near the house. We
intended TO come hack that night; had 10
20 to work on Sunday morning; neither OF
the ladies' were present when he told us
this; We were back that night to the stable
tending to the horses, little after dark: did
not notice anything about the house; next